Here’s the WARN notice which ETS filed with California’s EDD regarding the termination of 757 employees working as raters on the CAASPP-ELPAC contract (earlier story here). I put on my fake journalist cap and requested a copy last week.
It confirms that the 757 laid off employees are from around the United States, not just California.
I suppose these raters have been treated a bit better than the TOEFL raters who saw their work offshored to India earlier this year. If reporting in The PIE is any indication, those workers have seen their shifts dry up, but have not received official termination notices.
It is unclear how many American workers were used to rate the TOEFL, but taken together these changes may amount to more than 1000 jobs lost. Hard times.
